Senior Product Manager, Quantum

SAS is hiring a Senior Product Manager, Quantum, to define and drive the vision, roadmap, and requirements for its quantum product portfolio. The role brings quantum capabilities into SAS software, analytics workflows, and AI solutions, working with technical teams and stakeholders to deliver practical products and support customer adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Define and prioritize product requirements based on business drivers, customer inputs, market direction, and field contribution
• Translate business requirements into technical, functional, and non-functional requirements
• Define user personas and write use cases
• Drive product development and collaborate with software development teams based on requirements management, risk management, risk mitigation, and product lifecycles
• Partner and align with Product Commercialization Specialists to define market potential
• Support product launches as primary content provider to facilitate knowledge transfer of product functionality to marketing and sales
• Present product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, senior management stakeholders, customers, and analysts

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, quantum information science, or a related quantitative discipline
• 8+ years' experience in direct product management or software development related to analytics, AI, scientific computing, or emerging technologies
• Working knowledge of quantum computing concepts, including qubits, gates, circuits, hybrid quantum-classical workflows, current limitations of NISQ-era hardware, and the anticipated evolution toward fault-tolerant quantum computing
• Familiarity with quantum software development ecosystems, developer tools, and frameworks such as Qiskit, Azure Quantum, AWS Braket, CUDA-Q, or similar platforms
• Understanding of quantum hardware modalities and their tradeoffs, including superconducting, trapped ion, neutral atom, annealing, and other emerging approaches
• Understanding of quantum application domains such as optimization, simulation, machine learning, scientific computing, and related analytical workloads
• Familiarity with cloud-based quantum computing services, APIs, hardware integrations, and hybrid quantum-classical workflows
• Ability to define product requirements for quantum-enabled capabilities, developer tools, APIs, and platform-based integrations into SAS software products and solutions
• Understanding of how customers, developers, data scientists, and researchers evaluate and adopt emerging computing technologies
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage in technical discussions with customers, partners, and industry analysts
• Excellent critical thinking skills with demonstrated history of making good decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to work in a highly collaborative environment across multiple business units
• Ability to innovate and define creative solutions with compelling user experiences that exceed customer expectations
• A self-starter with bias toward action and the know-how to balance getting details right while still moving fast
• To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status